Modern American locomotive engines; their design, construction and management. A practical work for practical men (1883)
Edwards, Emory, b. 1841 · Bridgeport, Conn., Frederick Keppy · leaf 231
ads. The advantages of using an injector to feed steamboilers are, that it may be operated to deliver the waterin a continuous stream, and furnishes heated water atall times. To obtain the full advantage of the injectorthe manipulations of the instrument required to startand regulate the feed… … operation and regulated entirely by moving a singlehandle. The connection to the boiler, and those for INJECTOR^. 221 the admission of steam and water, are clearly desig-nated in the figure, the latter being provided with asuction chamber to steady the flow. A fixed receiv-ing-tube, through which…
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